[ちゅうぶ, chuubu] (n) (1) center; centre; middle; heart; (2) (abbr) (See 中部地方) Chubu region (inc. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures); (P) #2454
[いしる;いしり;よしる;よしり, ishiru ; ishiri ; yoshiru ; yoshiri] (n) fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture
[ごえもんぶろ, goemonburo] (n) bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)
[さつきます;サツキマス, satsukimasu ; satsukimasu] (n) (uk) satsukimasu salmon (subspecies of cherry salmon, Oncorhynchus masou ishikawae); red-spotted masu salmon; amago
[やまのて, yamanote] (n) (1) (See 下町, 山手・やまて) hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, inc. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); (2) (See 山手・やまて・1) place near the mountains
[じぶに, jibuni] (n) duck meat stew (dish from Ishikawa prefecture)
[いしかわけん, ishikawaken] (n) Ishikawa prefecture (Hokuriku area)
[ちゅうぶちほう, chuubuchihou] (n) Chubu region (inc. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
[のとはんとう, notohantou] (n) peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture
[はまのまさごはつきるともよにぬすびとのたねはつきまじ, hamanomasagohatsukirutomoyoninusubitonotanehatsukimaji] (exp) the sand on the beach may disappear, but the makings of thieves never shall (Ishikawa Goemon)